https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k The impact trash has on our ocean en-us 2019-01-18 15:28:50 UTC 2025-12-02 08:46:52 UTC hello@padlet.com glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/322166475 2019-01-18 15:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/322166475 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/322167150 2019-01-18 15:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/322167150 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/322167377 2019-01-18 15:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/322167377 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/322174416 2019-01-18 15:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/322174416 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/322175339 2019-01-18 15:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/322175339 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/322179995 2019-01-18 15:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/322179995 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/323491447 2019-01-23 15:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/323491447 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/323494618 2019-01-23 15:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/323494618 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/323500692 2019-01-23 15:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/323500692 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/323524932 2019-01-23 16:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/323524932 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/324384355 My thoughts:
I think it is sad knowing that the ocean could be taken over by trash and polluting animals habitats by 2050. The quote from the article says how trash will outweigh the fish in the ocean in 2050. That is only 30 years away, and we should be doing something about the trash in the ocean and making people more aware about how big of a problem this actually is. The article also says how the fossil fuel industry plans to increase plastic when we should really be getting rid of plastic. I think the fossil fuel industry is being selfish and should think about how plastic effects our environment and not only their company. ]]> 2019-01-25 16:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/324384355 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/324384563 Direct quotes:
"At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050." "Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled in it." "The fossil fuel industry plans to increase plastic production by 40 percent over the next decade."  "A recent study found that a quarter of fish at markets in California contained plastic in their guts, mostly in the form of plastic microfibers."-Author Catherine Kilduff

EPA reports “every bit of plastic ever made still exists.” 

]]> 2019-01-25 16:18:59 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/324384563 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/324394558 Direct Quotes:
"There should be hundreds of studies of this stuff. Our life, our economies are totally dependent on the oceans. Fifty percent of the oxygen we breathe is made in the ocean every night."-Haymet

"With plastic, when you're throwing a bottle cap on the ground, that should be an easy impact to get rid of."-Wilcox]]> 2019-01-25 16:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/324394558 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/324396217 My thoughts:
In this article it discusses a lot of ways to reduce the trash in the ocean. They brought up turning the plastic into yarn, then into clothes. Personally, I would buy clothes that I know helped decrease the amount of plastic in the ocean. It sounds like a good idea, but it is impossible to clean up the micro sized pieces of plastic in the ocean. I think every state should have a law for recycling. If we were to recycle every piece of trash, the amount of trash in the ocean would be decreased abundantly. The problem with trying to rid the ocean from trash, is that people do not recycle causing more trash to end up in the ocean. So its like a vicious cycle where the trash in the ocean never ends no matter how quickly you try to clean it up. My idea for cleaning the ocean up, is to provide more jobs. There are a lot of unemployed people in the world, and providing them jobs that do good for our earth by cleaning the trash out of the ocean would be a good thing for our country. I also think we should use the plastic from the ocean to create roads. It is proven that roads built from plastic are much more durable that asphalt roads. This would also be solving the pothole crisis as well. ]]> 2019-01-25 16:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/324396217 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/325412933 Direct quotes:
"First and foremost, an endless flow of trash into the ocean will affect the health of humans and wildlife alike as well as compromise the livelihoods that depend on a healthy ocean. 80% of ocean trash is a product of land based sources"
"If we don’t change our lifestyles soon, there could be one ton of plastic for every three tons of fish in the ocean by 2025." "Think of microplastics like a posting to the web. Once you put something on the internet it is there forever, no matter how buried it may seem to get."- Author Tory Glascock]]> 2019-01-29 14:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/325412933 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/325415840 My thoughts:
I like how this article describes the plastic ending up in the ocean is like posting something onto the internet. Since the plastic breaks down into tiny microfiber pieces, it is impossible to clean out of the ocean. Just like trying to get something off the web, it will always be there and is impossible to get rid of. It is also hard to hear that 80% of the trash in the ocean, comes from land. We could be preventing this by recycling and creating more jobs to clean up our ocean but instead nothing is done about it and the issue continues to progress. ]]> 2019-01-29 14:59:29 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/325415840 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/325420987 Direct quotes:
Pacific garbage patch, an area of widely dispersed trash that doubles in size every decade and is now believed to be roughly twice the size of Texas.-Lyndsey Hoshaw
“just a reminder that there’s nowhere that isn’t affected by humanity.”-Jeffery Ernst ]]> 2019-01-29 15:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/325420987 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327317661 My thoughts:
I am curious to know if it matters on how the country recycles that affects the trash in the ocean. The great pacific garbage patch off the coast of Hawaii is the largest one doubling the size of Texas. There are 5 other garbage patches but not quite as big. Does America create the most plastic and hardly recycles? I am also curious to know if there are any other garbage patches in our world that have not been discovered yet. ]]> 2019-02-04 14:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327317661 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327325367 Direct quotes: 
Less than a fifth of all plastic gets recycled globally. In the U.S. it’s less than 10 percent. Nearly 700 species, including endangered ones, are known to have been affected by it. China is the largest producer of plastic—it accounts for more than a quarter of the global total—much of it exported to the world.-Laura Parker
"Disposable plastic should be classified, not as a housewife’s friend, but as a hazardous material."- Nature magazine
“We know how to pick up garbage. Anyone can do it. We know how to dispose of it. We know how to recycle.” - Ted Siegler ]]> 2019-02-04 14:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327325367 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327329720 My thoughts:
I didn't know that Asia dumps their trash in the rivers or lakes or oceans near by. I assumed most countries can realize how plastic and trash in the ocean is a problem and we all are trying to do a little bit to prevent our ocean from being taken over by trash. Now it worries me knowing that some countries may not realize this is as big of a problem as it actually is and are careless about it. It is also concerning to think that the fish we are eating have plastic in them that can be transferred to us. Not so much the plastic is the problem, it is the toxins that are in the chemicals put into plastic that can also be more harmful if they transfer over to us. I think in ways plastic has helped us with things, but it has also become a huge problem. Celluloid made from plants is a product to use instead of plastic. I think we should stop producing plastic and start using products made from things similar to plastic such as the celluloid that wouldn't be harmful to the environment. I have seen things been made from bamboo which is another way to eliminate our production of plastic. ]]> 2019-02-04 14:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327329720 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327339078 My thoughts:
I think that India is making very smart choices dealing with the ocean trash crisis. I think America should also create more jobs as fishermen to be trained, then go out in the ocean to collect the trash. They would then send it to a factory to shred the plastic turning it into road material, which would create more jobs. Then the road workers who are trained to create asphalt roads, could work to create the roads out of plastic. I always wondered if the roads made of plastic would melt, but it turns out that is why India uses plastic roads because they do not melt. It is also a good idea to use plastic to build roads because it is more durable, so we wouldn't have to keep fixing potholes, and it 8% cheaper than the normal asphalt roads. ]]> 2019-02-04 15:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327339078 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327339213 Direct quotes:
"the state government launched a campaign called Suchitwa Sagaram, or Clean Sea, which trains fishermen to collect the plastic and bring it back to shore." "shredded plastic is converted into material that is used for road surfacing." "There are more than 34,000km of plastic roads in India, mostly in rural areas." "This road surface is increasingly popular as it makes the roads more resilient to India’s searing heat." "Each kilometre costs roughly 8% less than a conventional road." " India’s western state of Maharashtra issued a ban virtually all types of plastic bag, disposable cutlery, cups and dishes, as well as plastic containers and packaging." ]]> 2019-02-04 15:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327339213 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327347884 Direct quotes:
''The ocean provides us with everything we need: food, oxygen, inspiration and jobs. It also regulates the climate.''
''Every year, an estimated 8 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean."-Nina Jensen ]]> 2019-02-04 15:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327347884 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327348142 My thoughts: 
Knowing that the ocean does so much good for us like, providing food, oxygen, jobs, and regulating the climate, it is awful knowing how we treat it by dumping in trash. To decrease the amount of plastic ending up in the ocean, I think the plastic industry needs to go out of business. Stopping the production of plastic overall and creating non-degradeable plastics. Since its a vicious cycle of plastic flowing in, it is hard to clean up the ocean, so stopping the production of plastic would be good. I like the idea of making recycled plastic products cheaper than fossil plastic but in my opinion that plastic will most likely still end up in the ocean because not a lot of people recycle. so ultimately that Is. not a logical way to stop the plastic from ending up in the trash. I still think the best way to reduce the trash in the ocean is how India is doing it by creating roads, and also stopping the plastic production. ]]> 2019-02-04 15:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327348142 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327356590 Direct quotes:
"We are wanting to solve two world problems. On one side we call it the waste plastic epidemic, and on the other side the poor quality of roads that we have to drive on today."
"plastic additive is more cost effective and makes for a stronger "glue."
"Every ton of asphalt contains approximately 20,000 single-use plastic bottles or around 70,000 single-use plastic bags."
"plastic roads are 60% stronger than traditional roads, and lab tests project these roads may last up to three times longer."- Toby McCartney]]> 2019-02-04 15:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327356590 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327364392 My thoughts:
It is a good idea to use plastic in roads because, they are more durable, they cost less, and not only would we be helping the ocean by taking out trash, but we would also be eliminating the pothole crisis since plastic roads are more durable. I think every country should transfer over to making their roads out of plastic because it is a good way to use up the plastic in the ocean. ]]> 2019-02-04 15:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327364392 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327367474 Direct quotes:
"a huge collection of floating trash that's three times the size of France, or about double the size of Texas." - David Williams 
"It also is increasing, so we've seen exponential increase in the amount of plastic, which means it's just going to be getting worse and worse and worse unless we clean it up," - Boyan Slat]]> 2019-02-04 15:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327367474 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327369559 My thoughts:
I think the device will probably help curb the waste epidemic in the ocean because it stated how it thinks the fleet can clean up about 50% of the ocean trash in 5 years, which would be great but the problem of that is that new plastic and trash gets into the ocean. I also worry over animals getting caught in the fleet. It says how the animals can swim under the fleet and it is supposed to prevent them from getting caught in it, but some animals may not be as smart as others and get caught in it and can't get out. There are pros and cons to this idea, but overall I think its a good idea. ]]> 2019-02-04 16:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327369559 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327373506 My thoughts: 
How do oil spills happen? How can we prevent them from happening? If we can find other ways to make products besides using plastic, is their another way to substitute oil that isn't harmful for the environment? Knowing that there are other things contributing towards the ocean being polluted almost makes me stressed. Focusing on the trash in the ocean for so long, now realizing their are so many other problems that are causing the animals to die and our oceans polluted is very sad. ]]> 2019-02-04 16:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327373506 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327373659 Direct quotes:
"The majority of pollutants going into the ocean come from activities on land."
"Pollution that comes from a single source, like an oil or chemical spill, is known as point source pollution."

]]> 2019-02-04 16:09:36 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/327373659 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/332370868 Hoshaw, Lyndsey. “Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash” New York times, 10 November, 2009, http://www.greenrock.org/images/stories/new_york_times_article.pdf. Accessed 18 February, 2019. ]]> 2019-02-18 15:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/332370868 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/332373277 Parker, Laura. “We made plastic. We depend on it. Now we’re drowning in it.” National geographic August 2016, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/plastic-planet-waste-pollution-trash-crisis/. Accessed 18 February. ]]> 2019-02-18 15:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/332373277 glauberea2002 https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/333244460 “Ocean plastics pollution”. Center for biological diversity, n.d, https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ocean_plastics/. Accessed 19 February, 2019 ]]> 2019-02-20 16:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/glauberea2002/gmz78owd046k/wish/333244460